Medieval History
Ewelme, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.
- A Practicality.
Glass at Doddiscombsleigh in Devon. So you are medieval priest in a rural parish, with very fews clerks to hold your liturgical books for you. What do you do at a baptism with your nice new copy of the Sarum Manual? Well you either...
- Window Splays
Silchester, Hampshire, St. Mary's Church 15, originally uploaded by Eric Hardy. Browsing on friends photos on Flickr I came across this lovely image of the south side of the chancel at Silchester in Hampshire by Eric Hardy. The splays of the windows...
- Bodley And Garner In Lincolnshire
If you ever find yourself near Lincoln, take a detour ten miles south to the village of Brant Broughton, where the church of St Helen is a building that really shouldn't be missed. The church is an example of an exceptional and lavish restoration...
- Painted Rood Beam
Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Woodeaton, Oxfordshire has a super little medieval church with loads of texture. The walls have the crumbling remains of layer after layer of wallpaintings, including loads of red ochre lining...
- John The Baptist's Camel Skin
How was St John the Baptist dressed? This is how Mark's Gospel has it: 'Now John wore clothing of camel?s hair with a leather belt around his waist' (Matthew Mark 1.6) This fifteenth century panel from Yarnton in Oxfordshire is pretty representative...
Medieval History
Font cover at Ewelme, Oxfordshire
Ewelme, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.
The Bodley and Garner font cover at Brant Broughton reminded me to post a picture of the towering font cover at Ewelme in Gloucestershire. A delicate piece of design, it is comprised of diminishing tiers of tabernacling, topped with a lovely little figure of St Michael. Like most of its ilk the cover is counterweighted, and it lifts up to allow baptism.
If Pevsner is to be believed the cover was presented by John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk in 1475. John's mother Alice de la Pole, who has a lavish tomb in the church, was the grandaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer.
- A Practicality.
Glass at Doddiscombsleigh in Devon. So you are medieval priest in a rural parish, with very fews clerks to hold your liturgical books for you. What do you do at a baptism with your nice new copy of the Sarum Manual? Well you either...
- Window Splays
Silchester, Hampshire, St. Mary's Church 15, originally uploaded by Eric Hardy. Browsing on friends photos on Flickr I came across this lovely image of the south side of the chancel at Silchester in Hampshire by Eric Hardy. The splays of the windows...
- Bodley And Garner In Lincolnshire
If you ever find yourself near Lincoln, take a detour ten miles south to the village of Brant Broughton, where the church of St Helen is a building that really shouldn't be missed. The church is an example of an exceptional and lavish restoration...
- Painted Rood Beam
Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Woodeaton, Oxfordshire has a super little medieval church with loads of texture. The walls have the crumbling remains of layer after layer of wallpaintings, including loads of red ochre lining...
- John The Baptist's Camel Skin
How was St John the Baptist dressed? This is how Mark's Gospel has it: 'Now John wore clothing of camel?s hair with a leather belt around his waist' (Matthew Mark 1.6) This fifteenth century panel from Yarnton in Oxfordshire is pretty representative...